• @PolandIsAStateOfMind
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    71 year ago

    What a fun article. Some highlights:

    Duda clearly posing as Mussolini:

    Borrell saying:

    “People have memory and people have feelings,” he said. “We have to engage more, showing that we are defending universal values.”

    The very same Borell who on multiple occasions praised european colonialism. I wonder how African leaders and delegates understood his words “we have to engage more”

    Amrita Narlikar, president and professor at the Hamburg-based German Institute for Global and Area Studies, said that European and American officials needed to do better in countering what she called China’s “very clever” framing of itself as a part of the global south, where it promotes itself as a partner to help nations safeguard their sovereignty and boost development.

    Starting with “China bad” and right in the next two paragraphs calling for cooperation, only to finish with the call to the west to get it together and “win”. Lmao.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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      51 year ago

      Amazing how Europe is discovering that countries they’ve colonized and brutalized for over a century aren’t really sympathetic towards their colonizers. I mean who could’ve possibly guessed this would be the case.

          • @redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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            41 year ago

            I remember thinking the same myself once. An ill educated teenager, I wanted to learn more. I picked up Niall Ferguson’s Empire. From his website:

            … Niall Ferguson’s acclaimed Empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on the road to modernity.

            I won’t tell you the subtitle. Okay, you’ve pulled my leg, I’ll tell you. It’s Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World. Took me some years to undo the damage that book did to my critical faculties.